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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Transbase vs. Yanza vs. YDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yanza.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Yanza

Yandex

Initial release

2014

1987

2015

2019

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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